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| Musing Monday, July 10, 2017 |
Musing Mondays is a weekly meme that asks you to choose one of the following prompts to answer:
- I’m currently reading…
- Up next I think I’ll read…
- I bought the following book(s) in the past week…
- I’m super excited to tell you about (book/author/bookish-news)…
- I’m really upset by (book/author/bookish-news)…
- I can’t wait to get a copy of…
- I wish I could read ___, but…
- I blogged about ____ this past week…
I’m currently reading…
by Jane Austen
I know I said last week that I wanted to read The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue next, and in point of fact, I am. I started it this morning. Emma is the audiobook that I am listening to right now. Because my hold on it came in before bed last night, so I downloaded it this morning. For my summer reading challenge, I needed a book recommended by one of my favourite authors. Now as you all know my above all favourite is JK Rowling. So I looked up what book she recommends and the only one that looked appealing to me was Emma. This in itself says something because I am not generally a classics fan (even though I have a BA in English) and I did not like Pride and Prejudice. But one of my all time favourite movies is Clueless, which is an adaptation of Emma, so I have always suspected that I will enjoy it but have never gotten around to it. Figured now was the right time. Since discovering the joys of the audiobooks on OverDrive from the Public Library I decided to see if they had a copy of Emma. If they didn't I would have turned to LibriVox. Luckily though they did, and not just a straight narration, but a fully casted radio play version. I knew I had to have it.
When I went to add it to my shelves on Goodreads after placing a hold on it I was unable to find it. Luckily though, I am a Goodreads Librarian, so I just added it myself! Had to do that with my library's audio copy of Paradise Lost too for the same reason. I feel so cool when I get to add a new book on Goodreads, it's only the 2nd and 3rd times I've had the chance to do it haha.
Anyway, I started listening to it this morning, and it's super fun. I may end up having to buy a copy of this if audible has it...and they do, brilliant it's now added to my wish list! I paused it at the point where Emma decided to set Harriet up with Mr Elton because I couldn't stop laughing. Amy Heckerling didn't even change the Elton character's name in Clueless and I love it. I am excited to see if he's as much of an ass ad movie!Elton:
'I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.'
Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protegee Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected. With its imperfect but charming heroine and its witty and subtle exploration of relationships, Emma is often seen as Jane Austen's most flawless work.-- via Goodreads
THIS WEEK’S RANDOM QUESTION: Are you able to read when you're in pain or do you find it hard to focus?
I actually find that reading can help with pain, depending on the kind of pain that is. For sure it helps with emotional pain, that's why bibliotherapy is a thing that exists (and a thing I would love to explore/get into, wonder how one goes about doing that!). For physical pain, it can be a little more complicated. I think the degree/level/type of physical pain had a lot of influence in whether or not I can read. Mostly I use it as a distraction method, helps take my mind off of the pain. The exception obviously being when I have a headache. And when I have a sinus cold or sinus infection? Forget it, I am worse than useless then - we take for granted how much being able to breathe properly has an effect on the activities we do every day!
And now for an update on my summer reading challenge...
I've planned out all the books that I want to read for the categories on my summer reading challenge, and I am currently reading some of them as mentioned above. So far I have completed 9/36 requirements meaning I am 25% completed. The person I am doing the challenge with agreed we can double up on categories, so I found some books that fulfil multiple parts. In doing so I've figured out a way that only requires me to read 28 books in total to meet all 36 categories. Since I've done 9 that means I only have 19 more to go. Between my massive TBR piles (which at the rate of 1 a week would take me about 4.5 years to read...) and what my public libraries have on offer in the way of audiobooks, I only actually need to buy one book for this challenge, and that will be done with my July audible credit. Have a look at my progress so far and my planned books:
I've never read anything by Jane Austen, because I'm not a big classics fan either. Part of it is being forced to read some of them in high school. I'm glad you're enjoying Emma. Good luck with your challenge and thanks for visiting The Book Connection.
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